At least 15 people, including a senior superintendent of police, were injured on Monday when protestors clashed with security forces in Digiana and Kathua areas of Jammu province during the chakka jaam agitation called by the Shri Amarnath Yatra [Images] Sangarsh Samiti.

A large group of protestors took out a procession on the national highway at Digiana around noon, official sources said. The police resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to disperse the stone-pelting mobs.

The streets of Jammu wore a deserted look as the chakka jaam got underway.

Only security vehicles were seen plying on the roads. The SAYSS, demanding transfer of 100 acres of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board, had decided to intensify the ongoing agitation after three rounds of inconclusive talks with the government on August 23.

The Samiti asked people not to use their private vehicles today. However, vehicles of mediapersons and ambulances carrying patients were exempted from the chakka jaam agitation.

"In view of the dilly-dallying tactics of the government on the issue, the Samiti has decided to continue its agitation and so it extended the bandh upto August 31," SAYSS convenor Leela Karan Sharma told reporters in Jammu on Sunday night.

He maintained that the demands put forth by the Samiti before the government were 'clear and unambiguous' and that the issue should be settled immediately. The SAYSS has decided to hold rallies on August 27 and August 31 to press its demands.